Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-12-23
GLEA NINGS FROM The MAIL.

GLEANINGS FROM 1HE MAIL.
Botetourt county will be thickly studded
with canneries the coming year. Four can
ming factories are to be started at jackson, in
that county, one of them of 10, 900 cans capa
city Another 5000 can factory is to be start
ed on Capt. J. H. H. Figgatt's farm. A. 7
Booze, of the same county, will put seventy
his own cannery.
Madame Janauschek, the actress, had q
narrow escape at Dover, N. H., last week
while out driving. Her manager, Frank s.
Hawley, was thrown from the carriage and
badly hurt and she was considerably shaken
up.
James V. Brooke, Jr., formerly of the Stauu-
ton bar, now of Montana Territory, deliver
ed an address before the Teachers Institute,
at DEVILS Lake, few days ago, of which the
| ''Gazette' of that town speaks highly.
The Y. M. G. A. cause in Virginia is ON
boom. Some wealthy Northern gentlemen
have given $50, 900 to the University of Vir-
| ginia Association, for building, on condition
| of the gift of q lot. The lot, seven acres in
extent, was promptly given. The University
Association is the Oldest college Y. M. G. As
sociation in the world. At Fincastle citizen
has given fine lot and the citizens are orga-
nizing to erect building for the Y. M. G. A.
there. FL. O.. Williams, the active Virginia
State Secretary: is as busy commercial
drummer in visiting every part of the State and
is putting new life into the cause. In Phils-
delphi the business men have paid off the
whole Indebtedness of the Y. NJ c. A. of that
city, $214, 600 in amount, and left it with
fully equipped building worth $490, 200. free
of debt. At the public exhibition given by
the athletes OF the Lynchburg Y. M. C. Asso-
CATIONS gymnasium, last week. an audience
of over 200 people was present.
Mrs. John Jacob Aston of New York, a
daughter of Thom,s S. Gibbs, South Caro-
lima planter, died last week. She was famous
for her charities and gave away the whole of
her personal income, 500, 900 per annum, to
the poor.
At Wytheyille, Va, Charlie Bowyer of that
town and Jake Frank of Baltimore had
cheese eating match. the prize being a $50
pound Chester cheese Frank ate three
pounds, and Bowyer ate two and three quar-
tiers pounds. Bowyer was not only beaten but
made very sick.
The town council of Wytheyille, drv
town, has appointed committee to petition
the legislature for an amendment to the town
charter SO as to give the town council the
right to grant liquor licenses. Just as it was
gotten ready, Frank Moss of Tazewell county,
paraded the Main street of Wytheville hat
less and with large bottle of liquor in his
hand, and soon after getting out of town shot
dead the U. S. Mail carrier who he met in the
road
At Robinson's theatre in Cincinnati Charles
Andrews the stage manager, touched the bell
to ring down the curtain, when he was struck
dead by current of electricity coming down
the wire. He was only 26 years old.
The children of the late Ex-Governor VIM.
Smith will build memorial cottage at the
Confederate Soldiers Home at Richmond.
His daughter is having marble bust of her
father made, which will be given to the State
at her death.
''Ah, my son." said the minister, "rm glad
to see you in Sunday school at last Is this
your first Sunday?" eyes, sir" ':How do
you like it?" ooh, guess kin stand it until
after the Christmas tree.'s .